Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 18:29:27 -0500 From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020509182927.A71548@allusion.net> In-Reply-To: <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:31:49PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205090821380.98498-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu> <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:31:49PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 May 2002 08:24:57 MST, Joseph Scott wrote:
>
> > This may sound like an extremely silly little idea, but is there
> > any reason why we can't just replace /usr/bin/perl with a shell script
> > that prints out something like :
> >
> > Perl is no longer comes with the base install of FreeBSD, please install
> > it from your ports collection, in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.
>
> We don't want the port to overwrite a script that exists in userland,
> and we don't want installworld blowing away (or, even worse, following)
> the port's symlink.
>
> Symlink or redirector, but please not this. :-)
Shouldn't ports *not* touch anything outside of ${PREFIX}? I, for
one, can't stand when ports do that (except /etc/shells -- that's
different).
Seems that neither symlink nor redirector is neccesary; portable
perl shebangs use #!/usr/bin/env perl to search $PATH for it, and
if the local sysadmin wants they can make a symlink.
--
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net
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